Poetry: What’s Class Got To Do With It??!!

A reading on the theme of “working class poetry,” this is a program of Occupy Rogers Park Chicago and is co-sponsored by Guild Complex and Chicago Consortium For Working-Class Studies. Featured readers include poet and scholar Jeanetta Calhoun Mish and poet Adam Gottlieb. An open mic begins the program, so bring your own poetry related to the theme. And if you can, bring a dish to share at the potluck.

About the readers:

Poet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish is a writer, scholar, and professor, and is editor of Mongrel Empire Press. She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies with an emphasis on contemporary American poetry and working-class studies. Her poetry collection, Work Is Love Made Visible, published by West End Press in March 2009, won three major awards in 2010. She comes to us on a reading tour from New Mexico.

Adam Gottlieb is a graduate of Hampshire College and accomplished slam poet featured in the film Louder than a Bomb. Adam curates the weekly open mic “Mondays at the Royal Café” in Rogers Park. For Gottlieb, poetry is about communication and connecting with others. Slam, he says, is just the venue to bring people together, but it’s not as important as the poetry itself.